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Charlotte, NC, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

• As Global Director responsible for overall quality and safety of end-to-end construction, commissioning, and telecommunications provisioning for Meta data center capacity
• Lead a global team of Safety professionals charged with developing and delivering world class safety programs used to mitigate risk of injury to tens of thousands of construction worker delivering Meta data centers.
• Lead a global team of Quality, BMS, and Commissioning SMEs charged with developing and delivering world class construction quality program leveraged to ensure on time delivery of scheduled capacity that meets Meta.
• Lead a global team of Telecommunication experts focused on excellence in building out Meta’s telecommunications infrastructure including inside and outside plant fiber connectivity through effective provisioning of all.

• Develop and drive strategies to expand, deliver and maintain reliable connectivity of Facebook’s global fleet of data centers.
• Develop heathy global supply chain and partner engagements leveraged to fulfill growing need for data center capacity
• Lead world class global organization focused on providing timely telecom construction and operations services while remaining an industry leader in delivery and innovation.

• Development of Facebook Data Centers strategies in the Eastern region of United States. Constructed structured cabling infrastructure, both ISP and OSP fiber systems, and connect Facebook Data Centers per.
• Hired, developed and managed site personnel charged with project execution and data center operations across six locations and over 15 MSF of hyperscale data center.
• Drove Greenfield construction and maintenance of all structured cabling infrastructure for data center production, management, and general systems. Established and communicated clear goals for site cabling builds and.

• Responsible for construction and operation of telecommunications infrastructure / network supporting Facebook’s Forest City, NC Data Center.
• Drove construction activities aimed at delivering both inside plant and outside plant fabric infrastructure used to deliver compute capacity to the portfolio of Facebook data centers.
• Negotiated for and manage vendor engagements leveraged for major retrofits and break fix operations.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Leader of regional organization focused on real estate strategy and operations for IBM owned and leased properties in the 20 central states of the United States of America. Engaged with IBM executive teams to align IBM corporate real estate directives with business unit strategic priorities. Management of annual operational budget for the Central Region..

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Management of budget focused on maintaining and improving the physical conditions of IBM’s facility related assets in Austin, TX. Practice of various capital budgeting techniques aimed at maximizing value added.
• Develop and execute space strategies aimed at optimizing IBM Space portfolio.
• Lead for Site Crisis Management team, direction of the team, during actual and training events, in effort of organizing and executing the site’s formal response to the various threats.
• Direct site environmental programs to ensure that Austin location is in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations with respect to chemical management, waste disposition, and site environmental impacts.
• Negotiations with Maintenance Full Service Vendors to determine annual pricing and contract deliverables. Establish measurements and controls to ensure the fulfillment of contract deliverable.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Drove engineering assessments across all disciplines (i.e. Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Environmental, and Architectural.) Identified areas with deficiencies, developed capital improvement plan to address and managed.
• Managed reliability program to ensure best practice compliance for IBM Strategic Data Centers. Developed improvement plans to mitigate risk of outage due to facility defect. Managed construction projects given defined.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Managed annual expenditures focused on maintaining IBM’s facility related assets in the Research Triangle Park,
• As a member of IBM’s Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance Process Team, developed site maintenance deliverables and established performance measurements used to track program effectiveness and cost control.
• Developed energy management program for IBM’s RTP site and negotiated with local utilities to ensure best rates available. Initiated proposals aimed at reducing energy cost and hedging company risk against volatility.

Mba, Finance

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Architectural Engineering